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Publisher
Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Partisan warfare and gridlock in Washington threaten to squander America's opportunity to show the world that democracy can solve serious economic problems and ensure widely shared prosperity. Instead of working together to meet the challenges ahead--an aging work force, exploding inequality, climate change, rising debt--our elected leaders are sabotaging our economic future by blaming and demonizing each other in hopes of winning big in the next...
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Publisher
Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Here's the story of America's grooviest TV sitcom family! Marcia's on the trail of Davy Jones of The Monkees; Jan is weary of the constant comparisons to her older sibling ("Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!"); and Cindy just wants a boy to call her own. Across the hallway, Greg's new car is less than cool; Peter channels Humphrey Bogart (among others) while undergoing an image makeover; and little Bobby hates being just that - "little" - until he saves the...
Publisher
Gale
Language
English
Formats
Description
Provides quick, accurate answers to hundreds of question about the historical background and setting of 300 often-studied literary works, including novels, plays, poems, speeches and short stories.
Contains profiles of three hundred notable literary works written from ancient times through the end of the twentieth century, relating them to the historical context in which they were written and in which they are set; arranged alphabetically by title...
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The American Sonnet: An Anthology of Poems and Essays showcases the diversity of the American sonnet. 800 years after the sonnet's invention, this volume celebrates the extraordinary development of the sonnet in the hands of American poets-and those living under US empire-from traditional to experimental, political and personal. Edited by poet and scholar team Dora Malech and Laura T. Smith, this anthology collects and foregrounds an impressive range...
Author
Publisher
The University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Geneva Cobb Moore deftly combines literature, history, criticism, and theory in Maternal Metaphors of Power in African American Women's Literature by offering insight into the historical black experience from slavery to freedom as depicted in the literature of nine female writers across several centuries. Moore traces black women writers' creation of feminine and maternal metaphors of power in literature from the colonial era work of Phillis Wheatley...
Publisher
Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion showcases the global fashion industry's efforts to reduce the negative impacts associated with fashion production and consumption. Illustrated throughout with infographics, photographs and diagrams of creative works, eighteen essays focus on six regions, examining sustainable fashion in the context of local, cultural and environmental concerns. Also included are 18 regional 'Spotlight' sections highlighting...
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless books and magazines. Now, for the first time, this rich anthology brings together some of the most significant of those seasonal stories to retell a forgotten tale of Christmases past. From the authors who helped define a national literary culture, to the popular sentimentalists who negotiated Christmas's...
Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Examines how both male and female writers portray Latin American women, reinterpreting the dynamics between the genders across boundaries and historical periods. Supported by recent theories in literary criticism, gender, and Latin American studies, this compendium provides a deep understanding of the role of women as conduits for the appreciation of their countries and cultures"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
The original edition of The Complete Poems, published in 1950, won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. This revised and expanded edition is the definitive volume of Sandburg's work, an also contains 113 poems not included in the 1950 collection. --Harcourt Trade Publishers.
Publisher
University of Arkansas Press
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
With a focus on Holy Spirit power, charismatic Christians stirred enthusiastic responses across America just after 1900, first at a Bible school in Topeka and then in a small mission on Azusa Street in Los Angeles. Almost immediately, the religious revival spread to Houston, Chicago, and then northeastern urban centers. By the early 1910s the fervor had reached most parts of the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico, and eventually the converts...
Series
Great events from history volume 17
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Songbooks, a critical guide to American popular music writing, unfolds chronologically, with entries on authors, artists, and topics beginning with William Billings's 1770 New-England Psalm-Singer. Outsiders proliferate in these pages: women and/or writers of color, authors displaced by sexuality, self-educated scholars, elites deviating from norms. Their work routinely took non-academic shapes: compilations of songs, memoirs and biographies, fiction...
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